BPS Stik o worms 7 1/4"

Does anyone use these? They are the largest senko type bait there is. You do need bigger hooks.

My story is I took them fishing without looking at them. I figured they were just longer. I was wrong. I put the biggest hook I had with me and casted it out. My c-rig was almost to shore at the drop off. I seen a very large bass with my stick o in his mouth he was that close. I prayed, waited and prayed some more before setting the hook. Remember the small hook I had. Well I finally tried setting the hook and she spit it. She waved her tail at me as my new state record swam off. I wasn't mad, broken hearted maybe. This big record bass is what some fish for and I was ready to lip grab her. On the other hand it's a good feeling to see them up close yet so far away.

The bass won on that day. I never expected the stick o worms to be that big in diameter.

Just want to pass on lessons learned. I'm better prepared ever since. Check and assemble your plastics before we go fishing. I now go up one hook size larger in my plastics.

My catch rate hasnt changed from the smaller hook. The bigger hook doesn't scare them away.

Just some food for thought. Hook size go larger.

My motto is big bait big bass. Don't be afraid to upside you baits.

Owner 11/0 worm hook, or a VMC 8/0 EWG HOOK

I use use Gama's 7/0 or the VMC in 7/0. I have also used the Pumpkin ED 3/8 shakey head with 6/0 wide gap for a totally different presentation. I've caught some good ones on it!

Hook size was a huge mental hurdle for me to overcome. It sounds funny now, but I was really stuck on the idea that a fish couldn't get a big hook in its mouth. Of course I never stopped to think that the very name of the fish I was after (LARGEMOUTH) might have rendered that concern unnecessary. Once I switched from using 1/0 hooks to 4/0 on standard size worms and senkos my hookups skyrocketed.

I am consistently amazed at how small a fish will swallow a 7/0 worm hook. Every time I bust one out with a 10" worm I end up with a 1lb bass with a spear sticking out of its head.

I pour a swinging football head with a 7/0 VMC just for fishing the big BPS Stick O. I catch lots of little ones along with big ones on them though.